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Episode 27: The one where Michelle doesn't Sew :)

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Intro and Outro Music: Sundown by Joseph McDade, thank you!

Finished objects

Erica's new chair for podcasting. She has been looking at this Ikea chair for a while. She finally purchased it and Oli helped her put it together before the podcast!


Erica has finished her 3 ply Fractured Dawn yarns on Organic Polwarth. She split each braid in 3 and spun one single of each before returning to the first braid. All 3 splits from the same braid were initially plied together then more yarns were made plying singles from different braids together.


Erica also finished her Wool N Spinning Charollais Breed and Color Study! She split the batt in three across the colourway, then rolled each piece and spun it long draw. The plied all three singles together. The final braid is a two ply of the remining singles.



She still needs a name, but Michelle finished her crochet spider that she started almost a year ago. She loves how she turned out! There are 64 "flowers" that make up the spider with little other crochet work.

African flower spider pattern


The pattern only calls for two eyes, but a spider should have at least four.


Michelle has one finished yarn bowl. Others are waiting to be glazed. The underglaze needed to be a bit thicker, so the yellow made it a bit green, but she's happy with how it turned out. It's a smaller sized bowl.






Works in progress
Michelle made a tissue dispenser for reusable tissues. She has started making tissues to go in it. Store-bought handkerchiefs are just too big and rather thin, so she got some flannel and a hemming foot for her sewing machine. It's working out pretty well.  There are a couple tweaks to implement for the next one I make.


Of course she didn't go for plain white. These are the colors she's made. The two on the very right are purple, but the picture shows them as blue. The lighter blue is also more of a teal.


The large handkerchiefs seemed way too big for single uses. Michelle made hers about 8 inches square, which seem to be a great one-time-then-wash size.




Erica has started spinning singles in two colourways. She is on a spinning roll and will start plying when she runs out of storage bobbins or enthusiasm for spinning singles! One set of singles she has spun is in the Bee Mice Elf Sprout gradient colourway. The second is a Targhee, Silk, Bamboo blend from Fiber Optic Yarns in a Once in a Lifetime colourway.




She has cast on the Ginny Cardigan from Harrisville Designs Nightshades Last Call colourway. 


Finally, Erica and TJ are working on threading (correction) 800 beads for Dueling Club Mitts, from the book Harry Potter: Knitting Magic.







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